Tablets have been a hot commodity, both in sales and in discussions around the web, for all of 2011 and most of 2010 too. This isn’t looking to change, with Google’s highly revised “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system (v4.0) coming to phones and tablets by year’s end. We’re also seeing that most manufacturers have introduced all the tablet models they are going to for this ground, and the early adopters like Motorola are evening preparing their next round of Android tablets.

As the buzz keeps spinning around these sweet little toys, so do the deals. One of the more recent tablets introduced, we haven’t seen much in the way of discounts on Lenovo‘s IdeaPad K1. This 10-inch tablet has an MSRP of $499 for the 32GB version and it certainly has the credentials to back that up. It’s sporting Android 3.1, aka Honeycomb, a 10.1-inch 1280×800 display, NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core chip, 1GB LPDDR2 RAM, 5MP+2MP cameras, microSD card slot, and micro-HDMI video output. It is also Netflix certified and comes with 30+ premium apps for free, like Need for Speed: Shift, Angry Birds HD, and Norton Mobile Security.

Lenovo has been running a special for a while where you can snag the white 32GB version for $449 with a free keyboard dock ($79 value). This is definitely a good deal if you have use for the dock, but until now we hadn’t seen much of a dollar discount on the K1. Best Buy surprised us when it stepped up to the plate with a black 32GB model only $349.99 with free shipping. You will unfortunately have to pay your state’s sales tax, but this is still the best deal we have seen on the K1 tablet by $75. There is a backorder on these models right now, but you can still place an order at this low price.